Phillip of Australia : an account of the settlement at Sydney Cove, 1788-92 / by M. Barnard Eldershaw
- Bib ID:
- 129637
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Eldershaw, M. Barnard
- Description:
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- London ; Sydney : Harrap, 1938
- 366 p. : port. ; 23 cm.
- Series:
- Hallstrom Pacific Collection.
- Summary:
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Account of first settlement in Australia at Sydney Cove, led by Governor Phillip; discusses background to, and reasons for, settlement; government instructions, including instructions regarding Indigenous Australians, organisation, personnel etc for voyage and settlement; voyage to Sydney Cove; settlement and contact; Governor's, officers', solders', convicts' and settlers' varying attitudes to, and relationships with, Indigenous Australians; Governor's treatment of Indigenous Australians and attempts to maintain peaceful relations with them; descriptions of Indigenous Australians; deteriorating relationships, violence and eventual punitive expedition; capture of Arabanoo, and later Baneelon and Colbee, in attempt to learn about Indigenous people; captives' lives after captured; smallpox and famine among Aboriginal people.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 347-348.
- Library's Whelan copy inscribed and signed by the author.
- Subject:
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- Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Settlement and contacts - First Fleet, 1788
- Health - Infectious diseases - Smallpox
- Settlement and contacts - Penal colonies / Convicts
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Race relations - Violent
- New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1938
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